"Nico!" Piper called. "Come on! Please play with us!" Nico sighed. Piper, Jason, Percy, Annabeth, and Will were playing volleyball but they kept switching teams because there was only five of them. "You'll make it even teams Neeks!" Will hollered. They'd been pestering him about it for the last fifteen minutes or so, and he figured it wasn't going to stop anytime soon, so he slowly stood up and made his way over to the sand in which the net stood. "Yay! Look who's finally doing something!" Will teased. Nico glared at him, making Will and Jason laugh. They split into teams, being Annabeth, Nico, and Jason against Percy, Will, and Piper.

About another fifteen minutes later, the match was getting pretty intense, and Nico intended to destroy Will's team. He was, to his surprise, enjoying himself. They had decided earlier on that the first team to reach ten points won. Nico's team had enough points that when they scored again they'd have ten points. But the thing was, so did Will's. The ball came flying towards Nico's side of the net, and Annabeth and Jason were nowhere close to it. "Nico!" Jason yelled. "Hurry!" Annabeth urged. Nico knew he'd never get there in time to stop the ball running, so he decided on plan B. He jumped up in the air, did a backflip towards the ball, and kicked it as he flew by. The ball sailed back over the net, but nobody on the other team bothered to stop it. Everyone was standing dead still in dead silence. After a few seconds, Will choked out "Nice move Neeks." Nico smirked. "Dude," Jason said. "I had no idea you were that..."

"Flexible?" Piper guessed. "Yeah." Percy's eyes had widened greatly, and Annabeth looked like she just didn't understand . Nico's smirk grew. "Do something else, Nico." Annabeth said. Nico looked around at his friends, who all seemed to want him to 'do more'. So, with a shrug, Nico did another backflip in the air and then a back handspring when when he landed. Percy's eyes were even bigger. Annabeth and Piper looked stunned, and Jason was grinning. "That's my boy!" Will hollered, causing Nico to groan and his face to turn bright red. "How do you know how to do that stuff?" Piper asked. Nico shrugged again. "When you're hanging out in the underworld with Dad, you get bored. You gotta have something to do." Percy nodded like he completely understood. Nico wanted to make some comment asking Percy if he could do some of that stuff too, but he was already laughing.